Example sentences of "that 's be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is there something about my work that 's been bothering you , Headmaster ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 3 | The unlucky loser was Reid but then that 's been the story of his season . |
| 4 | The idea , one that 's been adopted many times since , was to ‘ camouflage ’ the door handle so it did n't interfere with the body lines . |
| 5 | It 's busted , so there 's a whole long sheet of towel on the floor , like a bog roll that 's been dropped . |
| 6 | Then suddenly there 's this loud bang from somewhere and they all fly off , like a mirror that 's been smashed — pieces flying everywhere . |
| 7 | But there 's also a moral evolution that 's been going on . |
| 8 | ‘ Nothing in the King 's regulations against using commonsense , ’ remarks the Cockney in the group that 's been persuaded to dump their official load and carry the machines through war-battered France . |
| 9 | Although it is rare to see a carpet that 's been worn right down to its backing they can often look worn . |
| 10 | Fantastic records both , but like There 's a Riot Goin' On , they do n't fit the erroneous model of ‘ political soul ’ that 's been constructed by white ‘ soulcialists ’ . |
| 11 | Or rather , more accurately , he 's estranged , wilfully , from the confining notion of ‘ full ’ humanity that 's been installed by the positive Aid popular culture — extroversion , civic engagement , the benign totalitarianism of caring/sharing/ opening up , the cult of health and efficiency . |
| 12 | ( That 's how you discover the odd rude word that 's been written on the script by some joker , before the VIP inadvertently reads it out . ) |
| 13 | There 's a stand-pipe that 's been erected two streets over that way , ’ she said , pointing . |
| 14 | ‘ What have you done in school this week that 's been interesting ? ’ is a question that we should put to other members of staff , and ourselves at every staff meeting . |
| 15 | There 's a pal of mine who works at the wood yard and he brings me a bag of bits of wood that 's been left over . |
| 16 | ‘ Please , señor , it 's my two hundred dollars that 's been stolen but I do n't want this . |
| 17 | The family has occupied less and less of this house since the World Wars , every generation a little less — Christabel 's room was in the east wing that 's been closed since 1918 , except for use as some kind of a glory-hole . |
| 18 | On several occasions I witnessed his lordship make attempts to draw M. Dupont aside for some private conversation , only for Mr Lewis smilingly to impose himself upon them with some remark like : ‘ Pardon me , gentlemen , but there 's something that 's been greatly puzzling me , ’ so that his lordship soon found himself having to listen to some more of Mr Lewis 's jovial anecdotes . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , it 's bigger than anything that 's been taken today , or yesterday , at one go . ’ |
| 20 | He 's been worried by the deer-raiding that 's been going on . |
| 21 | And it 's a journey that 's been travelled before , even in Ancient Greece : |
| 22 | But when I look back , I think it 's this path that 's been ploughed for me . |
| 23 | It 's his bare arse that 's been mauled . ’ |
| 24 | I also bought a Gibson Sonex that 's been doctored ; they 're not supposed to be very good , but this one sounds great . |
| 25 | A deep action treatment that 's been specifically formulated ‘ for sensitive hair that needs extra care and protection . |
| 26 | Hair that 's been coloured with a permanent product will benefit from an intensive conditioner once a week . |
| 27 | Now , Julie has a modern kitchen that 's been carefully designed to make good use of all the available space , and that blends in with the style of the rest of the house . |
| 28 | ‘ But I ca n't resist looking back at the history of rock and having this addiction to the great pop music that 's been made , whether it 's T-Rex or Blondie . |
| 29 | He 's right , he has the body of a whippet topped by the face of a bulldog that 's been given a severe kicking . |
| 30 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |